Swedish Armed Forces Staff raise preparedness

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Originally Posted by mapuc

To say it directly if Russia chose to attack Sweden, we have not much of military to use against them.

Some years ago there were made som report in which it clearly was stated Sweden could not defend every part of Sweden and even if the Swedish military choses to defend only some part of it, it could not withstand a longer war, more than 3-4 weeks and we couldn't rely on help from NATO or EU(can't find anywhere, I know I have read it, in Swedish)

Lately most of the Swedish politician have raised their voices for an increase of the Swedish military. What people seems to forget is that it takes more than years to rebuild an army or a military back to what it was before the cut down started

In the mid of the 60's Sweden had the 5th biggest navy
In the beginning of the 60's/70's Sweden had the 4 biggest airforce
(have read that in some books)

The reason to why we had such a big navy and airforce was that we had to fight NATO and WP( it was not official but everyone knew that Sweden was more friendly to NATO than a neutral country)

Markus

Without doing the research I'm happy to accept your positional figures for each military arm but the question I would pose is....What use are they or were they, you never used them?

I can only concur they were intended for self defence should ever Sweden come under attack.